RE: Multiple unicast MACs on the same interface
From: Jeff Haran
Date: Fri Dec 21 2007 - 18:30:15 EST
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Miller [mailto:davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 3:21 PM
> To: Jeff Haran
> Cc: baz.norman@xxxxxxxxx; linux-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Multiple unicast MACs on the same interface
>
> From: "Jeff Haran" <jharan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:16:08 -0800
>
> > I don't know of NICs that would support this.
>
> Many NICs support multiple unicast MAC addresses, we even
> have driver APIs for this in the Linux kernel.
There are far, far more things in this world that I don't know about
than there are things that I do know about. Perhaps you could briefly
describe the NICs and the driver APIs for the benefit of Norman, other
readers of this list and posterity.
Thanks,
Jeff Haran
Brocade
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